If You Have High-tech Gadgets, Your Privacy May Not Be Your Own!
This is a pretty exciting age
This is a pretty exciting age. There are a number of reasons for that. The population's perceptions have shifted.What were once considered unacceptable practices and behaviours have suddenly become the norm.We see a lot of different examples of that. And Most of the example are good.The racial equality is now higher than ever , and the same applies to women in work places.
Internal factors such as technological advancement played a big role in these developments.The power of centralized electronic archives and the world wide web made our lives easier.In the past you had to manually search for a paper documentation. Now the desired information is two clicks away.Another advantage is that back up systems are made and stored in different locations. Before, if a paper was destroyed it was the end.
But this is where things get complicated. Bad guys can also gain access to these data bases. This means ,that our privacy is at the mercy of the data base security. Because where there is a lock there will always be a key.
It's scary, but it doesn't mean we should revert back to stone age. There are many examples of how technology can help regular people access large data bases. Let's take phone-investigators.info/708/639/ as an example.
This service allows you to get details about the person to whom a particular telephone number belongs.It has a lot of useful applications in our everyday lives. If a person is being bombarded with phone calls from a particular telemarketing company he can reverse lookup their number and send an official letter to their address. You can also discover who is that annoying individual who is placing silent phone calls.
Unfortunately this innocent service can be used in a bad way. A person who is using reverse telephone lookup might be a stalker too. He might be looking up information about a person who is not returning his phone calls. But where do we draw the line? This is a perverted mix of freedom of information and privacy violation.
In my view it is up to the people to decide what information should be collected and disclosed. Otherwise the federal government and private corporations will continue grinding at the stone. One day we might wake up and see our privacy rights completely vanished.
If ever that level of privacy violation is reached it would be extremely hard to change anything. I see only one possible solution which can help us avoid this nightmare. I believe that privacy matters should be voted on by every citizen.